HMS Empress
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Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Empress:
- HMS Empress was previously the 91-gun screw powered second rate HMS Revenge. She was renamed HMS Empress in 1891, on her conversion to a training ship. She was sold in 1923.
- HMS Empress (1906) was a tender, transferred from the War Department in 1906. She was renamed HMS Heron later that year and was sold in 1923.
- HMS Empress (1914) was a seaplane tender, originally launched as a merchant in 1907. She was requisitioned by the Navy between 1914 and 1919.
- HMS Empress (D42) was an escort carrier, originally USS Carnegie. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1943, and returned to the US Navy in 1946.
